IGAGOE DÔCHÛ SUGOROKU

Act II: the murder of Yukie

Act III: in the Engakuji temple

Act V, scene 2: in the Castle of Honda Dainaiki

Act VI, scene 3: in the Thousand-pine Plain in Numazu

Act X: the Revenge at Iga Ueno

All the prints were made by Utagawa Kunikazu in the 1860s

The staging of "Igagoe Norikake Gappa" in the 11th lunar month of 1822 in Ôsaka at the Kita-Horie Ichi-no-Gawa Shibai with the actors Nakayama Shinkurô III (Watanabe Yukie, Matagorô's mother Narumi, Sakurada Rinzaemon), Bandô Jûtarô (Sasaki Tan'emon, Honda Naiki), Ichikawa Ebijûrô I (Sawai Matagorô, Sawai Jôgorô, Karaki Masaemon), Ichikawa Ichizô II (Watanabe Shizuma, Ikezoe Magohachi), Arashi Rikô I (Matagorô's sister Sasao), Ichikawa Sukejûrô IV (Uesugi Unai, Ishidome Busuke), Kataoka Machie (Osode, the keisei Wakamurasaki) and Nakayama Yosaburô II (Princess Yayoi)

 
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